REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON

THE NEW FAMILY PLEDGE

Until now in the Unification Church, you have been making My Pledge
every Sunday and the first of each month. For the forty years following
1951, Christianity, as the bride nation, had the mission to complete
the preparation for the Kingdom of Heaven to come of a new bridegroom
and a new God, connecting directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. However,
since this failed the Unification Church has emerged and re-indemnified
this foundation. This means that Christianity failed to establish the
individual level, family, clan and national horizontal base.
Vertically, however, it has been established. The establishment of the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth had failed, but now, for the first time
after three attempts since the founding of the Unification Church, it
has been established. Not the family, clan or national base, but rather
the world base has been established and hell has been chased out.

The Parent has established an individual, family, clan and national
base on behalf of the fallen world. The Second Advent is different in
that everything is on the basis of the worldwide level. The Lord of the
Second Advent was to re-indemnify from the individual all the way up to
the world base, receiving all the persecution because perfected Adam
had not yet emerged. This course was inevitable, because True Parents
were not perfected as True Parents. Therefore, this course of
persecution and re-indemnification has been necessary. Do you follow?
If you could understand True Father's words directly it would be much
clearer for you than receiving his words through translation.

The restoration was to have been completed within the family, Adam's
family. However, since this did not happen and humanity expanded
horizontally to world level, re-indemnification was to be made at the
world level. Therefore, persecution had to be tolerated through the
individual, family, clan, national and world levels. The Lord of the
Second Advent had to receive persecution at each of these levels before
reaching perfection. Once this had been completed, even Satan had to
return to his original position of archangel. Even hell has to be
liberated. This has been the whole purpose of religion. Once this
happens there is no need for religions to continue. Now we do not need
any religion. Religion was necessary in order to restore fallen
people. Once this has been completed then religion will no longer
continue as institutions, rather it will become a way of daily life
centering upon God.

This year's motto is The Settlement of True Parents and the
Completed Testament Age. What does that mean? This means that so many
nations and families in this world have been floating around with no
central place of settlement. Without a center no settlement can begin.
Now is the time for families around the world to find the center,
become one with it and settle down with God. You do not just settle
down by yourself and without Principle. That center is the center of
the whole world. Instead of this having been established from the very
beginning, the Lord of the Second Advent had to come back to that
center in the reverse way, beginning at the individual level, family,
clan, national and now up to the world level. Once it becomes
established at that level, then at that center all families will settle
down around. The satanic world would no longer have the place that it
once had and would naturally decline. Now the family begins and exists
around that center which is God.

America and Japan or other advanced nations are not the center by
themselves. This world of chaos, misfortune, tragedy and sadness now
is gradually coming to an end. From this point on human beings no
longer have to go through this kind of misery. On the other hand, the
Unification Church was the most difficult and dark place to dwell
within, both physically and mentally. But that too is coming to an
end, the sun is beginning to rise and the dawn is coming. The
Unification Church will also begin to experience the end of all sorrow
and the beginning of happiness.

We know very simply and clearly what was God's purpose of
creation-the family; nothing other than the family that has established
the four position foundation. The four position foundation consists of
three generations which, when deployed, becomes four positions; God,
father, mother and child. We know what the original four position
foundation was, centering upon God and Adam's couple and family. We
have recited the Pledge centered upon this family. We have recited this
Pledge every morning because we are connected to God in building this
new world, whereas the rest of the world is still not connected.
Therefore, it is our responsibility to connect all families through
us. The Unification Church has been achieving this through mass
weddings, going beyond the boundary of religion, creed, race or
whatever. We have established the new families through mass weddings.

The Kingdom of Heaven centered upon God cannot come under America,
rather America must come under the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. It is
not one nation under God but rather one world under God. Do you follow
so far? Therefore, we must make things upside down and rearrange them.
The fall took place in Adam's family and the result of this fall is the
separation of mind and body, parents and children, and husband and
wife. These are the results of the fall which took place in Adam's
family. Since this family was lost at the beginning of the human
history we must regain it. The separation that occurred as a result of
the fall have affected the clan and national levels because clans and
nations all have their own boundaries. It is up to the Lord who is to
come to break down all the walls that have come into being as a result
of the fall. True Parents must accomplish this because Adam and Eve
failed to do it in their family. Do you follow? When we recite the
Family Pledge it means that we have gone over that boundary and are now
on God's side, this is what we are pledging. When you are reciting the
Pledge it means that mind and body now has come into unity and is no
longer separated. That individual whose mind and body has come into
unity now stands to be united with their spouse.

We need to have a clear understanding of True Love. True Love now
brings back unity whereas false love separates at all different
levels. True Love will cause unity to come into being. This is what
True Love does. By bringing about unification for the first time we can
come to have an ideal family. When you speak of True Love, immediately
you have to think of the power of True Love that brings an individual
into unity and the family into unity, all three generations being
brought together by True Love. Whenever you are asked to define the
meaning of True Love you should immediately be able to describe what
the power of True Love can accomplish. Do we have any examples of such
united families here on the face of the earth? Is there any one family?
Even the strongest knit family does not come up to this qualification.
Automatically, it means we have hell on earth. Hell is none other than
being separated from God and from each other. Hell is the place where
you are unable to recognize your own parents, spouse and children even
if you are living together. We are witnessing this phenomena all over
the world. People no longer have a sense of their own identity, cannot
find their own family and wander around aimlessly. In the same way a
country such as America has been drifting into individualism, but
individualism cannot find its own identity and relations. This is
hell. America is passing through Satan's ideal, instead of God's
ideal.

The solution to this situation is that we have to turn around 180
degrees and go into a godly direction. Nobody has that idea in this
country or any country in the world, for that matter. No one can come
to this clear solution unless they understand Divine Principle.
Everyone knows that something is wrong and that they are sick, but they
do not know the cause and origin of their sickness. Therefore, they are
unable to cure it. Do you follow? When we are asked to define True
Love immediately we have to think that True Love is that power that
will bring the entities back into unification.

Even though we fell we still have a mind and body, but they have
been separated and at war with one another. Men and women marry, but
still there is a big wall; they fight one another like enemies. Parents
and children are in the same situation. Vertically, parents and
children fight; horizontally, husband and wife fight; front and rear,
brothers and sisters fight each other. All directions are in conflict
with each other. Where conflict exists, God cannot dwell. God comes and
lives with us whenever we have unity. Therefore, before we can expect
God to dwell within us we have to achieve unity between mind and body,
then God will be able to visit us. The same applies to the family. When
the family is united, God can come and live with that family.

You have heard Father's teaching on the subject of True Love so many
times now. If someone asks you to define True Love for them you cannot
hesitate to answer. Immediately you have to respond that True Love is
the power that brings my mind and body into unity, husband and wife
into unity, parents and children into unity, that is True Love. That is
the main spirit of God's restorational dispensation, bringing these
separate entities into unity. That is the main core of God's work:
unification. Even we, as fallen individuals, fallen families, are God's
individuals and God's own family, but He could not live with us because
unity was not there. When each is separated one from the other God
cannot live with us. Do you understand? Again Father wants to
emphasize, True Love is something that can bring my mind and body back
into unity, the husband and wife, and parents and children back into
unity. That is True Love.

When these three levels become united this will become a true family
which is the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth,
centering upon God and True Parents. Centering upon God and True
Parents we can accomplish the true family, true nation and the true
world. Where does the Kingdom of Heaven on earth begin from? From
myself, my spouse, and my children. There is no other way to
accomplish this. The concept of what True Love is must be very clear
for you. What is True Love? My mind and body will become united. How
can you make this unity? By cutting off the satanic lineage and being
grafted back into God's lineage, then the mind and body become one.
There is the root of the fall and this has to be uprooted. This has
been the work of the religious world, no matter what religion they go
through. Always striking the body so that the mind and body can become
one. Once the body is subdued then it has no problem in following the
mind. This is what the religious life has been all about. Our
conscience knows that when this is established we can go to heaven. Our
mind and body knows this. Do you understand the concept of True Love
now?

My Pledge consists of seven different pledges. You can only
accomplish each of these pledges after your individual mind and body
comes back into unity and the family comes back into unity, otherwise
you cannot successfully recite that Pledge. You may pledge but you
cannot accomplish that. When we first saw and recited the Pledge we did
so without really understanding deeply. However, now we have come to
understand deeply that the whole base is my family. Those who can say
confidently to Father that my mind and body is united and no longer
separated please raise your hands. We must first be able to say that
and then recite this Pledge. When we begin to pray, do so on the basis
of understanding the deep meaning of this pledge. Then pray whatever
you wish to God. The person whose mind and body has not even come into
unity yet cannot even begin praying to God. We are not qualified to do
so because our conscience does not allow us to call our God, our
Father. Now we are different from the rest of the world because we know
where the fall began and therefore we are able to remedy it. Do you
follow? (Yes.) Those who can confidently say that in your family the
husband and wife are completely united raise your hands, please. That
means that even though we are not qualified we are reciting the Pledge
and we are praying to God. Is that not so? How can you complain that
the world is bad and, therefore, you are having difficulties. It is not
because the world is bad that you are having difficulty; you are having
difficulty because of your family situation.

Unless we recite this Pledge we cannot enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth. Most of the Christian population believe that by
believing in Jesus they will be able to get into Kingdom of Heaven.
Getting into the Kingdom of Heaven is not so simple or easy. Today we
clearly understand what happened to Christianity, they have been hoping
to get into the Kingdom of Heaven on earth but instead they have ended
up in hell on earth. We see the problems everywhere, don't we? Are
people closer to heaven or hell? If there is a boundary line between
these two worlds, are they on the other side of the boundary or on this
side of the boundary of God. It becomes very obvious so each one can
answer clearly. Believing in Jesus does not guarantee your entry into
the Kingdom of Heaven. Each individual knows what is their position
today.

The Family Pledge came to be necessary because of this situation.
All seven pledges are centering upon True Love and now we understand
why. Unless the individual and the family are united, we cannot speak
about True Love. How about God? Does His mind and body fight like
ours? (No.) No. How about us? (Yes.) Is no and yes the same? No, they
are not the same. Not only not the same, but completely opposite of one
another. Do you think that it is easy or difficult to change positions
from the place where you answer yes to the place where you answer no to
this question? It is difficult; if you don't know about it, you will
never achieve. The world will in fact become upside down when we
accomplish this Pledge. Therefore, it is difficult to accomplish
because you are in fact changing the whole world and that content with
this Pledge. Therefore, how can it be easy? Should we do this or not?
(We should.) Father's entire lifetime work has been to build a good
highway, not just a highway but a paved highway with bridges and
tunnels, so all you have to do is run as fast as you can. Before Father
established this highway, nobody could go so fast. Did we help Father
build this highway or did we oppose him? We cannot claim that we
helped. Father is creating this highway for the very person who is
opposing Father. Even after Father explained clearly what was the past
and what is happening today people still look at the sky and do not
focus at all on what Father is talking about. Father is talking about
me, you and everyone.

Father did not work all these years for his own sake. He has worked
so hard in order to try to save all of us. What Father has been
teaching us is the key of how to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. When
the key does not fit the lock you cannot enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth. First, you must open the door and the key that you
need is Father's explanation and teaching which has been bequeathed to
us. If you try by other means it does not work. You may try keys made
out of gold, silver and diamonds but they will not work. The key that
you inherited from Father might seem insignificant, only made of metal,
but you try it and in one turn click it opens. Nobody can understand
that this is happening except ourselves. Only foolish people, namely
Moonies, understand the value of this key. Isn't that true? (Yes.)
That is why you came very early in the morning in the rain, because of
the power of the understanding of the value of that key.

We must understand how blessed we are. This is the gospel of all
gospels. The very fact that we are allowed and can recite My Pledge is
truly the gospel of all gospels. It is the subject for our family. My
family with True Love, centering on the naked land where I am born,
pledge that I will build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven.
This is pledge number one. In order to establish the Kingdom of Heaven
on earth and in heaven means we realize the ideal of God's creation. We
have recited this from God's position. The second pledge states: Our
family, centering on True Love... And when you say the words,
"centering upon True Love" immediately you must think, by
bringing my mind and body, my spouse, my children together into one.
This concept must be automatically there in our minds when we say the
words, "centering upon True Love." When we go to the
spiritual world, whether we have carried this out or not will be the
criteria of our judgment. If we do not establish this, we will be
without excuse in the spiritual world. The Pledge is that important and
that formidable. Once you have accomplished it, that is heaven.
However, if you do not accomplish it, you are judged.

If Father fails to achieve this, then it is not only Father's
responsibility but also Mother and children are then responsible
together. By the same token, it was only Adam and Eve who fell, their
children had nothing to do with it, but the children suffered.
Dedicating, serving and living for the sake of others are all contained
in the word moshinda .

God is our vertical parents and True Parents are our horizontal
parents from which I am born. That means without serving and dedicating
to God and True Parents we have no beginning. When we dedicate and
serve True Parents then each family represents the whole cosmos before
the fall. It means to become representative families before the entire
cosmos, to become the central families-from the individual level
throughout the eight steps and becoming the very center of the family.
By achieving this then we pledge again to become filial sons and
daughters within the family, a patriot at the national level, a saint
at the world level and a holy son centering upon the whole cosmos. This
is the content of pledge number two in which we pledge, centering upon
True Love, serving and dedicating to God and True Parents I will make
my family a representative family of the whole world and the center
family of the whole world, thereby becoming filial sons and daughters.
This means at the national level I will educate all the people of my
nation who are patriots of that nation. That is pledge number two.

Pledge number three states that we, centering upon True Love, will
accomplish the four heartistic realms and three kingships and the realm
of royal family; we pledge to perfect that level. That royal family was
the one Adam and Eve were supposed to have established. Now, after the
fall we restore that position. The number three pledge means that we
will be where Adam and Eve were supposed to be. Our Blessed couples are
in the original position. Before a woman can expect to be loved by a
man and before a man can expect to be loved by a woman we must first
qualify. That qualification is to stand in this position. When we enter
into the action of love we can only do that standing upon this
foundation of the four heartistic realms and three kingships. Without
True Love the four heartistic realms and three kingships cannot exist.
In here you can really feel that women are absolutely necessary for all
men, not just necessary, but absolutely necessary. Likewise men are
absolutely necessary for women. Being absolutely necessary is
equivalent to being very valuable.

This is one goal that all of our Blessed couples must strive towards
every day by reciting this every minute of the day. Do you follow?
Until now we have worked hard trying to understand the concept and
making that concept connected to myself. But from this Pledge we can
see that it is no longer just a concept, but rather a matter of living
that concept every day. This is why Father has always stressed the
importance of the family based upon True Love. This is an absolute
must. We can begin everything centering upon True Love and my family.
Unfortunately we can only say that we will try very hard to pledge
rather than saying absolutely, I pledge. It is that difficult and that
serious. When you say, "I pledge," it means literally that
you pledge. Once you pledge you must accomplish that.

When we listen to Father reading out the content of this Pledge,
each of us must compare ourselves to this standard and must understand
where we are standing in relation to this. When we accomplish this,
then we can enter into heaven. If we do not accomplish it, then we must
wait. The Pledge goes on to say, my family will achieve the one entire
cosmic family. Now you have pledged into unity, centering upon God. It
means there are not two families anymore, but one family. There may be
hundreds but they are still one family centering upon God. Is this not
true? The Pledge goes on to say, to form an entire cosmic family. We
are therefore all part of the cosmic family. This is a natural
phenomena which is God Himself.

When there is a low pressure, there is a high pressure. Does the
high pressure tell the low pressure to get away? High pressure will
automatically feel the low pressure without asking or expecting. This
is the natural law. In the same way, some water is high and some low
but they never stay separate, do they? The same surface makes them even
all the time. Does this occur in today's fallen world? One nation is
very rich and one is very poor, does this disparity flow like water and
air bringing equity? Who then is going against the law of nature?
Advanced nations are. If they go against God's law, they will
ultimately be destroyed. One way that God is punishing and warning
these advanced nations is through AIDS and drug problems. Homosexuality
and free sex are unlawful in God's sight. God hates these things and
does not even want to think about it. But Satan loves such things.
Father will encourage even American people to fast occasionally and
with the excess food help the starving people in the poor nations.
That kind of leveling off needs to be done. Just as the natural world
the human world has to come into balance and harmony under the natural
law.

The Pledge goes on by forming this cosmic family, I will work
towards making a world of peace, happiness and freedom. It does not
mean my happiness or my peace alone but rather the peace, happiness and
freedom of everybody. Obviously it is very difficult for us to achieve
this literally, physically, but the spiritual world has no boundaries
and through our deep prayer of desire we can wish these things for all
people of the world. When we see suffering we can shed tears for them
in prayer. Through doing this we will be able to help the world and to
escape judgment. This is what Father has been actually doing through
the Unification Church. It has been twenty years since Father first
began land and ocean transportation for the distribution of food. It is
not because food does not exist within the world but rather it is the
unfair distribution of food. Some have a lot and some do not have
enough. The Unification Church will exist in every corner of the world
and in each corner of the world, as the center of the universe, they
will work towards this goal. That is Father's desire and plan to
facilitate the distribution of food to all parts of the world. Do you
follow the meaning of Pledge number three?

The whole world is my family. It is not the false reality that we
see today where my family is this one unit and everybody else is
separate. In the spiritual world we will not live according to
national boundaries. If you belong to one society, that society will
comprise all nationalities. This is a reality in the spiritual world.
From this time on whoever can make a goal for every direction and
achieve it, you are the center of that society. That means we must
always think this way while we are living on earth and work towards
that goal, then once we reach the spiritual world we become the center
of that world. Once again Father emphasizes, all of this will only
begin to become possible when our mind and body becomes one.

In the world you see people become relentless in the pursuit of
making money. In the spiritual world such a person's conscience will
really crush him. Here on earth the money itself will come against
him. No matter how much knowledge and respect we gain here on the
earth, unless we live for the sake of the whole that very knowledge
will blame us in the spiritual world. That man with such precious
knowledge is supposed to work for the sake of the entire world, instead
of working just for himself. In this case the world will be his judge
in the spiritual world. Each individual family must be able to achieve
what Father is teaching us here before we will be able to fit in to the
spiritual world. The whole is the key, not the individual family. No
matter how precious an individual family might be, unless all families
of the world become like this it has no meaning. The Pledge then goes
on to say we pledge to establish a world of peace and happiness and
freedom.

Pledge number five. Our family, centering upon True Love,
acknowledge the heavenly world is the subject world. But the reality is
that people living here on earth do not even think about the heavenly
world being subject. Are there more people here on earth or in
spiritual world? (Spiritual world.) We only think about this earthly
world, but in fact there are far more people in the spiritual world.
That means you are missing the body and holding onto the tail. As a
result of the fall, human beings long ago forgot that the subject world
in heaven exists. Beginning today, whenever we recite the Pledge we are
aware of this subject world. Mind is plus and body is minus and not the
other way around, even though the body is something we see. Our earthly
world is only a small fragment of the complete picture. The mind is
the representative of the spiritual world, it is in the plus position.
Just as the body rebelled against the mind and treated it very badly,
we have completely ignored our subject world in the same way.
Therefore, we have reason enough to repent of that.

This world of subject and object must become one. We pledge to
expedite the progressive development. Do you understand? We pledge to
promote progressive development. If we move slowly we will stop,
therefore we must have a thrust. Once we stop and no longer advance,
we are automatically in hell. We are reaching towards this goal of
heaven; once we slow down or stop, we go down. Having a comfortable and
easy life has no place here. Life is short, and during this short span
of life we must work towards progressive development. The cosmos goes
around the center. It is easy for the center to go around one circle,
but when you are on the edge it is necessary to travel a long distance
to complete one cycle. Just as on an automobile wheel, the center of
the wheel is the shaft and that revolves very easily but what about the
surface of the wheel? It has to go very fast. In the same way we must
synchronize the center and the surface. Father's life, in the past and
today, is always on the move. He never wants to slow down but always
wants to move faster and faster. This is the pledge that Father is
explaining to us.

You can only connect to the world that you are thinking of. If you
are not thinking of something, you are not connecting to it. If you
pledge, My family, centering upon True Love, pledge to accelerate the
progressive development of bringing the heavenly world, which is
subject, and the world we are living in, which is object, into
oneness. Not only are we conscious of the world that we are living in
but we should be thinking all the time of the heavenly world which is
the subject world, and how to bring them into harmony and unification.
We pledge to become representatives of God's family and True Parents'
family. The Pledge goes on, My family, centering upon True Love, will
become a representative family of God and True Parents' family and
become an influential family. That means, like Father's own family,
exert influence of the heavenly fortune. This might seem very
conceptual, but it is in fact very concrete and very realistic in
Oriental concepts. Father's life and his family life is not Father's
and his family's alone. Rather they have a visible influence over how
the heavenly influence will move in the future. We are going to do that
too. Through this we are connecting all the blessings to each family.
This is the content of Pledge number six. By doing this we are not
expecting blessing for my family alone, but rather as much as I expect
the blessing to come to my family I will ensure that each family which
I represent, all the families of the world, will connect to the same
blessings of God and True Parents. We have millions of families on the
earth and when we are reciting this Pledge it means we will become a
representative family whose function is to connect the blessing to all
the rest of the families to be restored on earth horizontally. Do you
follow this Pledge number six? (Yes.)

Pledge number seven: my family, centering upon True Love, will
maintain the original lineage. Now in the Unification Church this
original lineage is of the utmost importance. Because of this change of
lineage the fall took place. Unification Church Blessed families can
never make any mistake and distort this lineage. No fall must occur
anymore. Then the Pledge goes on, to accomplish the heartistic cultural
world. This is a very basic explanation but you understand the
meaning. God's mind in heaven and God's mind on earth is the same and
Parents' heart is the same.

Father's brand new true civilization is beginning now, the
civilization of love. Fallen civilization is existing now in the world,
but heavenly civilization has nothing to do with that. We are creating
a heartistic civilization. Unless we have this heartistic attitude, we
will not be able to elevate ourselves from an individual to the higher
levels of family, clan, nation, world and cosmos. Only this heartistic
civilization can bring us into one consistent direction, starting from
the individual all the way to the huge cosmos. On the other hand, we
see the civilization that has existed until now has been full of trials
and errors and has taken a very zig-zag path. Father's new world
civilization envisions a straightforward consistent direction. Only
True Love can accomplish this. Therefore, to perfect a heartistic
civilization means that True Love is on the move. Unless our mind and
body becomes united, our family cannot come to exist. We talk about
the heartistic civilization, but where does it begin? The family.

Father just recited the seventh pledge. It has everything from the
restoration to the perfection of the ideal world. All the goals and
steps are explained there. We recite this every day in order to achieve
that goal. Imagine, Father values Korea most of all and yet he is
announcing this most important Pledge not in Korea, but here in
America. How much blessing and value we cannot yet understand because
our spirits are not that high and bright now. When we come to think of
our original value, all our ancestors in the spiritual world will shout
out mansei because their offspring are all here receiving this gospel
for the first time in history. You may be thinking that you have
received enough, that today is Mother's Day and you have to go
fundraising and make money and grumble in your hearts. But once you
truly understand what Father is bringing to you then such people should
feel so badly for even thinking that way. This is so precious.

We must truly regard it as our pride and our blessing to have
attended this morning here and received Father's words which never have
been spoken in the past nor will be in the future. This is only time in
history and you were present. You must always realize that you are an
individual representing the whole universe and your family is
representing history. Therefore, our Pledge must be followed by our
working towards this goal. Father commends all of us to become the
individuals who are representing everyone. Even reciting the Pledge,
you are not pledging alone, but rather you are representing everyone
and representing history. Those who understand the meaning and blessing
clearly and pledge to Father that you will become that kind of
individual and that kind of family, please raise your hands.